Puzzle 1
Starter clue: I = T
ZIZAAZTTGCEGCS,ECBIKVBVZACLTGCLVIKZLMZLIKVPCBTOPCBAVIKULYVZLMIUTNVOUYCSI,ULOIKUIZALCIYVZLMIUTNVOUYCSI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 212
6 cryptograms to solve with a pencil. Each letter of the quote has been swapped for another letter, and the same swap holds all the way through.
20 pt ciphertext — the size a newspaper puzzle page never gives you. 26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. Both sizes print on US Letter with the answer key on its own page.
Printing this web page instead? Press Ctrl+P (⌘+P on a Mac). The navigation and buttons drop away, and the answer key prints on its own page — open it below first if you want it included.
The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: S = E
NSSIQZXRUMSPXJUQOZMTZQCSVASQTS.MZWRZZEPXXJSBPKQUQODZUNZMXJSMAXAWS,PQNPXXJPXZXJSWRUIUXRSCCCYPTS,XJSYPCX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = E
FZXCBSESLSIOJLS,UXFBSZKDSFKOJLS;TEATOBTGCAJCDKCJERKXICSOLSCFKUSZTDDG,JFJCJESLJFTUOSFZTFBSESLSIUSQKPSCK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = E
JLBAPVTFRLXOQBVKVYIVKVBSDYTDTQQVNYTYSVKLPZVTFDSYLTNLBDOODKKYQVTSFYTYTQXFSBEYBBVFZVKSYIVLNTVUOYUVTKV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
MCKCPANCVHXJCERCHGCDKXLJCONXPXAKBXOOXSMCJPEKCHXLCNXJRCVLTHGCMFSVNXPBGESBCESVHGCGAKKFBESCNXPVFNENHCK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = O
CSWDWIWKXDTKIZXIYTIZIWWDXRZWCGDWIXMBXYIWBXIUDWRFXSBX,DWYZXFKWTIMDQWDXRZWCGDWIMDJCWTGIWXJKFMCDZCVGXFE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Solver's cheat sheet
- Most common letters
- E T A O I N S H R D L U
- Most common 1-letter words
- A I
- Most common 2-letter words
- OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM
- Most common 3-letter words
- THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE
- Common double letters
- LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC
- Common word endings
- -ING -ION -ENT -TION -LY -ED -ER -EST
- After an apostrophe
- T (don't) S (it's) RE (we're) VE (I've) LL (we'll) D (I'd)
Want this on its own sheet? Print the letter frequency chart.
Show the answer key (6 solutions)
- “It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=S B=R C=O D=Q E=F F=M G=Y H=X I=T J=Z K=H L=N M=G N=K O=D P=W Q=V R=P S=U T=L U=A V=E W=C X=J Y=B Z=I
- “Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IV. 50 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=Y C=S D=V E=K F=Z G=X H=B I=M J=H K=W L=J M=F N=D O=G P=A Q=N R=L S=E T=C U=I V=Q W=R X=T Y=P Z=O
- “Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.”— Blaise Pascal, 1670, Pensees (Thoughts), Chap. V. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=W C=S D=P E=N F=T G=Y H=F I=R J=I K=O L=V M=Q N=J O=L P=M Q=C R=G S=E T=A U=B V=K W=Z X=U Y=X Z=H
- “Workmen should receive certain and definite compensation for all accidents in industry irrespective of negligence.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=K B=R C=B D=A E=Y F=S G=J H=Z I=V J=W K=C L=O M=Q N=F O=L P=M Q=D R=H S=T T=N U=G V=E W=X X=U Y=I Z=P
- “We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=U B=C C=E D=P E=A F=I G=H H=T I=Z J=L K=R L=B M=W N=S O=M P=F Q=J R=V S=N T=Y U=Q V=D W=K X=O Y=G Z=X
- “I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=Z B=G C=I D=N E=F F=L G=S H=J I=T J=X K=P L=C M=A N=V O=Q P=B Q=Y R=W S=D T=U U=K V=M W=O X=E Y=R Z=H